The Jesus Guy

Peripatetic New Testament scholar Darrell Bock, professor at Dallas Theological Seminary and senior editor at Christianity Today, has a new book out this fall. Apparently, Bock travels the country for three months touting one book, then nine months later gives birth to another one. That’s a heck of a pace.

The new book is called Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture’s Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ, and it's sort of a follow-up to Bock’s 2004 bestseller Breaking the Da Vinci Code. In that tome, he took time from his scholarly research -- he’s known as perhaps the world’s preeminent expert on the Gospel of Luke -- to, as he puts it, “engage the culture.” The new book tackles what Bock and co-author Daniel B. Wallace call the clash between Christianity and “Jesusanity,” a view that rejects the divinity of Jesus but respects the Jesus of Nazareth who is primarily a teacher and guide.